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Irish rock group U2 went to court today to try to recover 5,000
euro ($A8,000) worth of memorabilia - including a pair of lead
singer Bono's trousers - from a former stylist.

The multi-millionaires, who played to nearly 250,000 fans in
three Dublin concerts over the last few days, are suing Lola
Cashman for the return of a number of items she says she received
as gifts.

Bono rejected Cashman's claim she had been given the articles,
including a Stetson hat, a pair of black three-quarter length
trousers and earrings worn by him on the band's 1987 Joshua Tree
tour and in the 1988 film Rattle and Hum.

"The stylists would never have asked for them and the band would
never have given them," Bono told Dublin's circuit court, adding
that while Cashman had a good eye for wardrobe, she had been
difficult to work with.

"Almost every single person on the tour wanted her off the
tour," he said, adding that while they were not part of the case he
also wanted some 200 Polaroid photographs in her possession
returned.

Cashman, who published an unauthorised biography of the group
last year entitled Inside the Zoo with U2: My Life with the World's
Biggest Rock Band, has previously sought unsuccessfully to sell the
mementos at auction.

Bono denied the band was taking legal action against Cashman
because of her book.